New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- It has been 10 years since the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (CoP-21), where 195 states made a historic commitment to work together to keep the long-term rise in global temperatures well below 2deg Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the rise to no more than 1.5deg Celsius. France played its part in making this great moment of universal solidarity a success. A decade later, we can be proud of how far we have come.

In France, we have reduced our greenhouse-gas emissions by 30% compared with 1990, including 20% between 2017 and 2024. We went from a reduction of less than 1% per year before 2017 to annual reductions of more than 2% on average from 2017 to 2021-and more than 4% on ...